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Lev Borisovich Kamenev was born into a Jewish Family in 1883, the same year Karl Marx died. His original name was Rosenfield. In 1901, he joined the Social Democratic Party and sided with the Bolshevik Party when the party split in 1903. He immigrated to Western Europe in 1908, where he worked very closely with the Bolsheviks, whom were headed by Lenin. Kamenev was banished from Russia in 1915 for revolutionary activities but he returned after the February 1917 Revolution and became a member of the communist party. Kamenev went against the idea of violent seizure of the state power. Despite this grave confrontation with Lenin, Kamenev was elected the first nominal head of the Soviet Russia as chairman of the all-Russian Central Executive Committee. However, soon Kamenev resigned from the Bolshevik Central Committee as he supported the government including various political parties rather than only the Bolsheviks as Lenin...

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